So the question that I get asked the most often on my twitch streams, in my youtube comments is
sometimes people just see me talking in like Chinese in vlogs
I've gotten everything in the book okay?
I've gotten "Rafi you look Indonesian"
"you look Mexican"
"Hey Rafi you look Hindi- are you from India?"
"Are you like a mix of white and Japanese?"
So I get it right, my appearance is extremely vague and the fact that I speak different languages in different videos kinda makes people confused
So I guess this video is one big answer to that question :D
I think what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna speak all the languages in order
So I'm gonna start from the one that I learned first, up until the last
And yeah I'll just start saying random stuff because-
like I don't have anything prepared
Im just gonna... let the language flow out of my mouth :D
To this day a lot of people don’t know that I am Czech
and that I can speak Czech
because in the comments under some of my videos or vlogs where I just mention Czechia a little bit
I often see comments saying like
How come you know about the Czech Republic? or, Are you studying Czech?
which I find really funny because I’ve never tried to hide the fact that I am Czech
but no yeah, I’m ethnically half Czech, I was born here
only half because my mom is Czech and my dad is from Peru, so yeah
the Czech language is my mother tongue, I learned it when I was little
first language that I ever learned
and honestly I feel bad for sometimes seeing Czech people on the internet that say that English is way better than Czech
that they like hate our language and stuff like that
which I can’t understand at all, because the Czech language is so beautiful
not to say that poems and fairy tales in Czech sound better than in any other language
for real, I mean like poetry and fairy tales in Czech, I’m dead
it’s really just such a lovely language
sorry I got carried away a little, but yeah, my first language is Czech
the second language that I learned in my life was Portuguese, specifically Brazilian Portuguese
it’s because when I was small, my dad got an offer to work in Brazil, in Sao Paulo
and so, my whole family has moved to Brazil
and we lived there for like 3 years
so my sister, my brother and I started to attend a Brazilian school
that was called Colégio Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
and there, we learned Portuguese
yeah
to be completely honest, I don’t remember that much from Portuguese because...
after the 3 years that we lived in Brazil we came back to the Czech Republic
so at that time I was like 8 years old
and here I didn’t have the need to speak Portuguese anymore
because here everyone speaks Czech
everybody here speaks Czech, nobody speaks Portuguese so...
yeah, that’s that..
I forgot the majority of what I learned in Brazil
but currently I am... how do you say it
I’m relearning Portuguese in university
I’m learning the European version of Portuguese, from Portugal
which is a little bit different from the Brazilian version
I, so far, still have the Brazilian accent
the paulistano accent I think, because I lived in Sao Paulo
*brazilian slang*
yeah this is what I remember from Brazilian Portuguese
I really like this language
I always say that I like all the languages that I can speak the same amount
but if I had to choose only one, it would definitely be Brazilian Portuguese
yup.
Okay so this propably isn't very exciting but the third language that I learned in my life was English
yeah most of you already know where my level of English is at because I speak English in all of my videos, all of my twitch streams
but yeah I started to learn English in my 3rd year of elementary school
so basically right when I came back from Brazil to the Czech Republic I started learning it here
but that didn't really give me much, because a lot of the times in elementary school
some of the teachers, like they themselves don't even have a good enough proficiency in English
so before highschool the most of my English knowledge came from the internet so..
youtube, movies, games also, Minecraft and League of Legends helped me so much with my English...
also with my accent you know, everything, the internet has been really helpful when it comes to learning English
and I don't even know what you would classify my accent as because when I was younger I was exposed to so many accents
like Australian, American, British..
I think right now I'm inclining more towards the American version of English, one of the American accent I don't know...
you guys, native English speakers watching this video, let me know in the comments what do you think my accent sounds like
*snack time*
pardon me, it’s just that I’m really hungry
the fourth language that I learned is Spanish
yes, although my dad is from Peru, I started learning it in highschool
and yeah,
with that being said I wanted to say that being biracial isn’t the same as being bilingual
I didn’t grow up bilingual
it’s because when my siblings and I were little, I think there was no reason or time to teach us Spanish
and so we all had to learn it in our own way
for example my brother learned it in his job I think,
my sister did an exchange in Argentina,
and me well.. when I was fifteen or sixteen I started learning it in my highschool
and yeah, I immediately fell in love with the language
in this period of my life, also thanks to Spanish, I started to feel a lot better for being half Czech, half Peruvian
let’s say a „minority“ in my country
me personally I like the Spanish a lot, it’s a very rich language, it’s really beautiful too,
and I, everytime I speaks spanish I start smiling because it just sounds really good
from all the Spanish countries I visited only Mexico and Spain,
in Mexico I went to Cancun, Yucatan and of course Mexico city
in Spain I went to Barcelona and Madrid
yeah, I really liked both countries
yeah I think that’s it
finally I’d like to say hi to my teachers Marketa and Eva that taught me Spanish during the 4 years of highschool
for real, I couldn’t imagine better Spanish teachers
so thank you for teaching me and...
for having patience
okay umm
the fifth language is...
*realizing how many „go“ sounds are in the sentence*
so the fifth language is Japanese
in the year 2018 I came to Japan for the first time, and I started making vlogs
that’s the time were my channel kind of took off
I did a student exchange for 3 months in the Yamagata prefecture of Japan
but!
before going to Japan, I couldn’t speak Japanese at all
and I was really nervous too
I was worried that by doing a mistake while speaking, I would say something rude by accident
and now too...
of course, right now I’m nervous too XD
thanks to having a host family in Japan, I learned the majority of grammar and new words from my host brother
で、
Umi thank you for teaching me
*thank you in Shonai dialect*
what else...
the life of an exchange student in Japan was really really nice
the nature of Yamagata prefecture as well as Tsuruoka city were really beautiful
what’s more, I enjoyed every single thing from my Japanese highschool, to the after school karaoke sessions, or the summer break
well even though I say I really liked the summer
the Japanese summer can sometimes really be...
really hot as hell
what else...
of course, I would love to visit Japan again in the future
so I’m continuing with my Japanese studies in university
by the way my favorite Japanese food is Miso Soup
that’s why my audience is called the Miso Soup Gang
and now, it’s anime voice actor mode!
Yo!
Remember this will ya...
Before you eat your miso soup
Definitely...
Stir first it okay?
Trust me..
Stir it beforehand...
yep this is a famous quote from Umi
just like a silly joke...
(or is it O_O )
Yeah that’s all, thanks for listening
okay my last language is Chinese
ok..
after my Japanese exchange I returned to my country
but merely spent 1 week in the Czech Republic
after that week I went to Beijing and started my Chinese exchange
I think I don't tell you guys stories about my Chinese exchange very often
but actually, my 10 months that I lived in Beijing were really, really amazing
I made a lot of new friends
I ate a lot of delicious food
and just overall experienced a lot of fun things
so I think a lot of my happiest memories were made during my Chinese 10 months
besides, I learned Chinese
even though I'm still not fluent, my pronunciation isn't perfect, I make a lot of mistakes and...
I think I could improve on my listening skills
but I can speak at least a bit
I can ask how much something costs, I can ask for direction etc.
I just feel like Chinese is a very comfortable/cozy language (idk how to explain it really)
I really like Chinese
it also sounds super cool
I'd like to thank my two main Chinese teachers, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Yuan
they taught me and my classmates Mandarin everyday
day after day they'd tell us to study hard
they were really..
like in my entire life, I haven't met better teachers than they were
like for real
actually the one reason why I'd really love to come back to China is to visit them again, just to have a chat one more time
okay what else, what else...
I'm going to tell you guys a Chinese joke okay..
what is the name of the worst superhero?
S-pi-der-man (in Chinese the pronunciation is very similiar to a word that means "loser" :D)
okay, that's it, I'm out
and the Slovak language doesn't really count
because almost every Czech person can speak or at least understand Slovak
so I don't count it..
And yeah that's kind of it, those are my 6 languages,
if I ever happen to have the chance to learn more languages in the future I would definitely love to learn like Russian or Hindi... something like.. useful :D
I definitely don't want to rush it because right now I really just want to focus on the languages that I'm currently studying and I want to perfect them
after I'm done with that I might add a couple more but like...
I'm not like in a rush, I'm really satisfied- I really like all the languages that I'm studying right now
and I don't want to add more and more because I wouldn't have anyone to practice them with anyways so..
but if you think that I should learn your language let me know why in the comments, tell me something cool about your language that would make me wanna learn it
anyways guys that's gonna be it for today's video, I hope you liked it!
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